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Tina Brown Explains How the Narrative Cake Is Baked

In the New York Times, Tina Brown, who quit as editor of the New Yorker in the late 1990s to edit a start-up glossy magazine backed by Harvey Weinstein called Talk, explains a little about how The Narrative cake is baked:

Harvey spent most of the hours of his working day ensuring that all the bad stories went away, killed, evaporated, spun into something diametrically its opposite. It was a common sight outside a Harvey opening party to see one of his publicists trapped in a car on the phone, spinning — spinning the dross of some new outrage into gold.

When I founded Talk magazine in 1998 with Miramax, the movie company Harvey founded with his brother Bob, I also took over the running of their fledgling book company with Jonathan Burnham as editor in chief. Strange contracts pre-dating us would suddenly surface, book deals with no deadline attached authored by attractive or nearly famous women, one I recall was by the stewardess on a private plane. It was startling — and professionally mortifying — to discover how many hacks writing gossip columns or entertainment coverage were on the Miramax payroll with a “consultancy” or a “development deal” (one even at The New York Times).

Harvey engaged sexual harassment’s legal bulldog, Lisa Bloom, she who brought down Bill O’Reilly and recently appeared on the stage of Women in the World’s Canada Summit as thrilling feminist avenger. Then, it emerged The Weinstein Company bought Bloom’s book on Trayvon Martin for a movie — classic Harvey M.O…

Good essay from V Dare, starting a discussion about the corruption controlling liberal Hollywood. Few conservatives have written about the incredible corruption in the Obama administration (Michelle Malkin is an exception). The corruption in Hollywood is even worse, if that is possible.

Speaking on behalf of Moos-leeeems, I find it extremely offensive that you identify your butterfly ass as Buddhist. In our tolerant and multicultural age, you should understand that vibrant Islamists are offended by such expressions of najis polytheism. Adjust yourself accordingly.

One thing about Tina Brown’s article – which is well worth a read – is how she, twice, including in the last sentence, brings Trump into to this.

Because, obviously, an article about how aggressive leftist (and aggressive rapist) Harvey Weinstein got away with assaulting vulnerable women for decades has to somehow tie in to Trump.

It’s almost surreal at this point.

Waffle

The filth doesn’t wash off—- evah!

LauraS

I noticed that about the original article on Weinstein by Ronan Farrow. A quote from his piece: “Their disclosures follow in the wake of stories alleging sexual misconduct by public figures, including Donald Trump, Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, and Bill Cosby.” No mention of Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, or any other sleazy, high profile Democrats. These “journalists” are always, ALWAYS leftists first and foremost. Pathetic.

xavier

Interesting. So many leads so; so much to do. I find Weinstein’s publishing arm to be a very interesting lead to investigate.

Get a grand jury and start with Tina Brown. Pour over the contract: get investigators from the SEC

. I suspect looking at that micro company will start the unraveling of Hollywood as there’ll be indictments. It’ll be minor crimes that snowball due to flipping

Millie_Woods

It’s amazing how many of Harvey’s old friends and associates are turning on him, even people he bankrolled, like Tina Brown. Hollywood used to have the Rat Pack. Now it’s just got rats.